Longsys launches Lexar-branded 1TB SDXC card

Longsys, under the Lexar brand name, has announced the Lexar Professional 633x SDXC UHS-I card with 1TB of storage.

The Class 10 UHS-I card has a theoretical maximum read speed up to 95MB/s and write speed up to 70MB/s, but it's only guaranteed a sustained write speed of 30MB/s as noted by the V30/U3 rating. This means the write speeds might peak at 70MB/s, but the card certainly can't sustain them, otherwise it'd be labelled as a V60 card.

The card, which is also available in sizes down to 16GB, is capable of operating from 0° to 70° C (32° to 158°F) and being stored from -25° to 85° C (-13° to 185°F) in humidity levels between 5 and 95 percent. Each card comes with a limited lifetime warranty.

The 1TB Lexar Professional 633x SDXC UHS-I card is available now and retails for $499.99.

Comments

Why can't people see beyond their own bubble. There are many applications where large capacity is important while write speed is not. Time lapse photography, cameras in remote positions that can't be accessed easily, shooting JPG, sending a client a large amount of files, ...And then there are many applications where cards are used that have nothing to do with photography.

This is a stupid idea with a slow write speed to boot... For those who do stills especially this is just paying more money with a BIGGER risk to lose many photos with just one incident (camera stolen, or dropped in an unaccessible space, card failure). Not to mention writing times for back up on the goA product that EVERY photographer should avoid.

I have a problem filling 2x 64GB XQD on a day long shoot with the D850 or Z7 in RAW.If I do, I download and backup.1TB, you got to seriously spray'n'pray and be good at swapping batteries to fill that puppy. Video? I'd have thought anyone needing 1TB of storage on the move will be using an external recorder with SSD rather than relying on an SD card that big. For complete work backup when out on a long work trip? I use small Samsung SSD T5 or that right now. 512GB for about 110 Euro. So, cheaper, less compact but more robust.

Confused. A statement of We're Lexar and we're back from not really being away for too long?

500usd Is too dear.. i would love for card quality to improve in every way price will drop ................eventually got myself a 400 gb micro sd card from b&h for 89.09 usd for film and music in my cellphone last week

1TB? Really? Especially at V30 speeds. V90 I could see. Maybe. I certainly have no need for 1TB SD card storage, but I could see ultra fast (at least V90 and UHS-2) being useful in certain applications, such as the BlackMagic Video Assist 4K, or the BMPCC4K.

The biggest card I currently use is 256GB in my GH5, and it's a 1000x card. AND it's a UHS-2 card,

I also wish that labeling cards with the READ speed would stop. It is the WRITE speed that is important. It is also amazing how difficult many manufacturers make it to actually find the WRITE speed specs.

doesn't matter, you need the speed to store RAW files and videos. A RAW file, especially on the 36MPx+ sensors are large, and cameras shoot them fast. Also for 4k video you would need some 400Mbps sustained write sped.

It could be, if speed is not important. As fast as these cards are, they're no match for a SSD. You have to be careful and have frequent backups in case something happens to it.

In fact, I have been using a 512gb SD card as a personal storage on my laptop for several years now. That's twice the size of the internal SSD.

I frequently backup the card files to a 4TB HDD... at least every week, or sooner if I have a significant number of new/updated files.

An especially good use would be to map your online folder (like OneDrive) to this large card for offline use... (1) you don't waste lot of primary storage on your laptop and (2) if the card is damaged, the files are always on OneDrive.

For that price, you can get 4x 1TB SSDs or 2x 2TB SSDs or 2x 10TB HDDs for your computer. The only advantage of the SD card is size. While everything else is a disadvantage, literally - slower, much less reliable, much more expensive, easy to lose, easy to break, etc. So it really makes more sense to upgrade your laptop's SSD, than using a card like this.

That wouldn't be good idea.If you want a small footprint disk, and your motherboard has a slot for it, your best option for an extremely fast disk is an M.2280 PCIe, newer generation. The newer ones can read & write at twice the current read and write speeds of an SSD. Otherwise, use an SSD.

Would never use this as a computer "hard drive". If you're going to spend that much money on a 1TB SD card to use as computer storage, use a Thunderbolt3 SSD drive, or at least a USBc drive. At least those are much more dependable, and far faster.

That's a really bad idea. CF cards as hard drive were popular some 15 years ago, not much now. Any 1TB HDD is faster than this card and much more reliable. Also will hold the information longer. And no, powering up your card doesn't refresh the information, you have to rewrite every memory location which takes ages with such slow card. If something fails in the memory chip you're done, with HDD you can at least recover most if not all of the data. Or better have second redundant drive for the same price as this single card.

micro sd and sd is cheap and plentiful ,,there is no reason on earth not use it in a laptop for any purpose ,[ back up whatever is of importance , as ever] if youve got a laptop not impoversished connectivity wise [ proper connectors of all currently used species ] an unused sd slot is a cheap easy way to throw 128\200\256\400\512 gb in or out in secondsthis does not prevent the use of faster m.2 or other ssd if youve got a slot or are not dealing with electronics cheaply glued together like some apple or surface devices

@SatyaaLosing 128gb is also not acceptable. Losing even 32gb is not acceptable.

That said with one large (always in camera) and many small cards (in the second card slot) it is easier to regularly seperate them. People often forget that with a stolen camera/ stolen bag the images are also gone, which often hurts far more.So for me at least once a day I will put the second card in a different bag avoiding having to offload all my images once a day.

I agree that losing anything is not acceptable. While that's not in my hands, my attempt is to minimize the risk.

I have noticed that the larger capacities and the smaller cards (Micro SD) fail more. Up to 128gb have existed for a long time, which I found are reliable, and I bought the newer versions of those cards (v30 speeds).

So far, I have not lost any data with those cards and I want to keep it that way :)

That's precisely why any pro worth their weight will only use a camera with 2 card slots. Losing even one valuable photo is bad enough but any yahoo that fills one of these cards without some kind of redundancy is paying Russian roulette.

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